dig是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 挖， 掘，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is not Ikki to dig holes, nor Mao, the Peacock, that he should fly.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We will go back, and dig our graves behind those ramparts.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, if we were able to dig out a dwelling in that cliff, at a good height, so as to be out of the reach of harm, that would be capital!I can see that on the front which looks seaward, five or six rooms " "With windows to light them!"
-- On the north, from this breach to the sea, by the new water-course which had hollowed out a bed for itself across the plateau and shore, above and below the fall, and it would be enough to dig the bed of this creek a little deeper to make it impracticable for animals, on all the eastern border by the sea itself, from the mouth of the aforesaid creek to the mouth of the Mercy.
-- But nothing could be easier than to dig a broad deep ditch, which could be filled from the lake, and the overflow of which would throw itself by a rapid fall into the bed of the Mercy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dig the ground, and plant things that are to live and grow.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I sometimes dig for buttered rolls,Or set limed twigs for crabs;I sometimes search the grassy knollsFor wheels of Hansom-cabs.And that's the way" (he gave a wink)"By which I get my wealth And very gladly will I drinkYour Honour's noble health."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tired though we all were, two were sent out for firewood; two more were set to dig a grave for Redruth; the doctor was named cook; I was put sentry at the door; and the captain himself went from one to another, keeping up our spirits and lending a hand wherever it was wanted.
-- But I'll have to dig for it."
-- The buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after another, into the pit and to dig with their fingers, throwing the boards aside as they did so.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon a sign from Captain Nemo one of the men advanced; and at some feet from the cross he began to dig a hole with a pickaxe that he took from his belt.
-- Before proceeding to dig the walls, he took the soundings, to be sure of working in the right direction.
-- There were about 6,000 cubic yards to detach, so as to dig a hole by which we could descend to the ice-field.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A more elastic footstep entered next; and now I opened my mouth for a 'good morning,' but closed it again, the salutation unachieved; for Hareton Earnshaw was performing his orison SOTTO VOCE, in a series of curses directed against every object he touched, while he rummaged a corner for a spade or shovel to dig through the drifts.
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